(N.b. I’ve been ill, so am reposting the article I wrote this time last year, perhaps as an example of hubris… The three conversation lessons I boasted of taking each week did become four not long after I’d pubished it, adding French to my weekly chats in Swedish, Turkish and Spanish. And not long after […]

Buondì. The Autumn/Fall Sale starts today, which means you can save a fifth on online Italian lessons and ebooks for learning Italian (assuming you remember to use coupon code, which is: 2021-Autumn-Sale-20%-Off ). The next sale won’t be until the end of December, which is approximately twelve weeks away. So if you’re one of our regular […]

Buondì. A comment/question from Mary came in overnight: “Why do you discourage reading aloud?” I love it when club members and students ask questions because 1.) it goes right to an issue that they might need help with, and 2.) it saves me the effort of thinking of something useful to write or teach. Though […]

Buondì. Next week we’ll be having our Autumn/Fall sale, which means a coupon code that saves you 20% on online lessons and/or ebooks for improving your Italian and/or other languages. In anticipation, why not browse our Catalog page? Bear in mind that the prices there will be reduced by a fifth if you remember to […]

Buondì. I’ll keep this short again, as the bloody touch pad on the computer is driving me up the wall – one delicate click comes out as a trembly two, two decisive clicks turn out not to have been felt at all (leaving me stabbing furiously at the machine with semi-numb fingers), and typing this […]

Buondì. A rare Saturday article, to compensate for there having been no articles on Wednesday or Friday, the first time I’ve missed writing to the club on one of the regular days for many, many years. I often tell my students, by way of encouraging them to read and listen more to the language or […]

Buondì. My son, wearing a black hoodie, black tracksuit trousers, black Nikes, and carrying a black bag (which may or may not contain books and something to write with), has just walked out of the front door to catch a bus to what will be the first full week of his final year of school. […]

Buondì. Here we are with the final part in our FREE, 30-part Summer Series of Italian articles with audio. Has it been worth it? Well, I’ve certainly learnt a lot! Hope you have, too. Today we’re continuing Wednesday’s profiles of notable medieval women, with the stories of a saint (one of Italy’s TWO patron saints, […]

Buondì. What’s the difference between an ‘epoch‘ and an ‘era‘? I confess, I had to look it up (see the links above, which are to Dictionary.com, a site which was new to me until today, but seems quite useful…) My ignorance can be blamed on my nineteen-seventies-era (not ‘epoch’) comprehensive school education, perhaps. I bet […]